Word: billiard
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...classic comic tradition, he is persistently gloomy. In point of fact, his early lot was not too happy. A onetime stack-boy in the Boston Public Library, he got interested in juggling through reading a few books on the subject, soon became so proficient with balls and billiard cues that he was permitted to join a troupe of amateurs touring movie houses around Boston. Allen was subjected to all kinds of indignities. He was struck from behind with bladders, bothered by flying stuffed fish, interrupted by the appearance of signs reading: Don't be harsh, he's good...
...money had Abraham Flexner. For 30 years the fattest moneybags in the U. S. opened to his touch. He loosened up no mean part of the Rockefeller, Carnegie, Eastman and Morgan fortunes, channeled them into U. S. education. Last week, in his autobiography, I Remember (Simon & Schuster; $3.75), billiard-bald, wizened Dr. Flexner, 73, explained...
HARRIET E. RAYMOND Celluloid Corp. New York City ; True, John Hyatt pioneered plastics with the invention of Celluloid in 1868 (he was after a $10,000 prize for a synthetic billiard ball). But not until Dr. Baekeland invented non-inflammable synthetic resin did the modern plastics industry come into...
...Dewey's neat little mustache looks so stagy because his face lacks the maturity to support it. It has all the depth of experience of a billiard ball...
...thinks that the idea back of a pool and a billiard room is pretty sound. Naturally studies and exams come first, but with a little application any fellow should be able to loosen up his wrist and hit a dead-center ball. Besides, it's good relaxation...